Air Raids (Regional Commissioners' Statements)

asked the Home Secretary what steps he proposes to take to discourage Regional Commissioners from making statements prophesying heavy air-raids and so creating alarm and despondency among the civilian population, particularly in danger areas?

It is right and proper that warnings should be given to the Civil Defence Services and the civil population to be in a state of readiness for heavy raids, and in my view it would be a reflection on the people of this country to suggest that such warnings would create alarm and despondency.